Noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM), which is a major adult disease, is caused by a secretary decrease of insulin from pancreatic Langerhans β cells, or a lowering of the insulin resistance. 1 One of the most direct and beneficial types of therapy for NIDDM is achieved by control of the blood glucose level after a meal by delaying glucose absorption. 2 Among the therapeutic drugs used to prevent a high blood glucose level, the inhibitors of α-glucosidase (AGH, EC 3.2.1.20), which is a membrane-bound enzyme at the epithelium of the small intestine that catalyzes the cleavage of glucose from disaccharide, are effective for delaying glucose absorption. 3,4 To date, certain synthetic inhibitors of AGH 5 have been developed and used for the therapeutic treatment of NIDDM. 6 In the field of food chemistry, much attention has been devoted to a search for food materials with AGH inhibitory activity from natural resources and that have a high demand for a rapid and continuous assay method of AGH inhibitory activity. A spectrophotometric method using a pseudo-substrate, pnitrophenyl-α-D-glucopyranoside, and free AGH from baker's yeast has been widely used for in vitro assays. 7,8 It was pointed out, however, that the evaluated inhibitory effects of pharmaceuticals did not match with those obtained by an in vivo experiment. 9 The reason for this discordance comes from the difference in the environment of AGH in the mammalian intestine. We previously reported on a pseudo-in vivo assay system using immobilized rat intestinal AGH on Sepharose, which mimics the environment of the mammalian small intestine. 10 Biosensors still offer great potential as the next revolution in analysis. The high sensitivity of enzymes coupled with the electrochemical signal transducer should ideally result in an enzyme electrode capable of measuring the concentration of the substrate in a medium containing a diverse mixture of other compounds. 11 So far, the development of biosensors has focused on the system for a single channel. The development of a system for multi-channel biosensors is very important to increase the frequency of the sample treatment. We have been devoted to the development of multi-channel flow-type biosensors. 12-16 A micro titer plate detection system with 96-wells is another type of multi-channel detection system using immobilized enzymes. For instance, Ukeda et al. developed a spectrophotometric system which used immobilized enzymes on the surface of the micro titer plate. [17][18][19] Recently, a multi-channel dissolved oxygen meter (DOX96) was developed with the intention of making simultaneous evaluations of drug resistance for microorganisms. 20 Arai et al. inoculated mixtures of a test drug and a culture medium containing microorganisms in the wells of the electrode plate (96-wells, MEC-96), and evaluated the drug resistance by monitoring the oxygen consumption accompanying the respiration of viable microorganisms. 21 These kinds of evaluations, however, were qualitative with respect to measurements of th...